#veteran-class

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bitter turtle
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demanding on gear quality though

sonic marlin
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those scopes are unusable yikes

bitter turtle
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i have no issues 🤷‍♀️

sonic marlin
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thinking about buying the set, but i like my trophyhunter chest armor so much

bitter turtle
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c an we pls have two auric mael missions up at once

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so i dont have to play extra poxbursters

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thanks

stone tapir
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no

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just shoot faster

sonic marlin
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is there better fashion stuff or nah?

modest elk
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I'm confused by veteran. I...feel like other classes do what he does but better?

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Just started leveling one and just feel...off with it

stone tapir
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veteran starts to stand out in the mid levels

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when you get your grenades and specialty weapons'

finite imp
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We do what every other class does but better.

sonic marlin
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pretty hot

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10eur

muted knot
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Don't @ me

finite imp
muted knot
sonic marlin
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fully red

terse idol
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Veteran late is a little fuunnnyy

tall torrent
modest elk
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IS melee Vet better than Zealot?

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I generally prefer Melee and go for my Zealot for that

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But ill keep pushing my vet along

bitter turtle
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i would say

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its very strong offensively but weaker defensively

faint beacon
sonic marlin
bitter turtle
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weapon specialist abuses the revolver a lot in melee playstyle

sonic marlin
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or like

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scraped

bitter turtle
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in a way zealot cant do

frank ether
bitter turtle
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but if you're asking

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which one can banzai charge into enemy line alone and live

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zealot

sonic marlin
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do most of you run auric damnation or what

bitter turtle
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i only play auric mael

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occasionally qp auric if im doing a meme or just farming plas

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which i dont do much because its brain numbingly boring

slow spade
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But how else will you get the diamantine for crafting except for endless standard quickplays 💪💪💪

sonic marlin
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i've been pretty comfortable in normal damnation for some time, don't remember losing any games, ig its time to move to auric

bitter turtle
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its really not much different

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tbh

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the tension modifier is higher? ig

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i heard this at least

wanton dawn
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Pretty much only playing auric maelstrom

bitter turtle
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try auric mael

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that is pretty significantly different and a step up

idle swallow
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QP aurics for me because perpetually need plasteel still

faint beacon
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Honestly reminding me I need to play Mael more mainly cause I've just been plasteel grinding and its been getting actually boring

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Enhanced Blitz Mael, making me consider whipping out the grenadier build

idle swallow
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If they can ever one day make those dumb books/grims give resource multipliers like quickplay does...

agile forge
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at least let me have a room where I can stack the books up lol

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make it like the payday 2 vault

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only it's spooky books

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and then you get enough and a daemon manifests on the mourningstar

hidden summit
slow spade
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Indeed

hidden summit
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Drives me insane when people pick up both

slow spade
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Idk why the docket amount is so low on top of other shit like constant ticking corruption damage

hidden summit
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Let’s just kill the lil uns

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Scripts are literally more profitable in every way and are easier

wise fossil
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Luckily most of the community seems to have gotten the message to never pick them up

hidden summit
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Nah

slow spade
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The sad moment when picking all all grims can't even afford you to buy a grey gun from brunt lol

hidden summit
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50% of the time they pick it up every time whatthefuck_heresy

wise fossil
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I must be a lucky varlet then whatthefuck_heresy

hidden summit
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Join my games, feel the pain.

bitter turtle
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let ppl pick them up

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qp auric is already 💤

hidden summit
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It’s monster mash maelstrom or nothing for me

serene sage
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well shit anyone wanna play a game?

midnight totem
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Sorry I'm here to bitch about games not play them

brave bear
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veteran suck

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bolt gun suck

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power sword futile

hidden summit
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Is there a good bolt gun build out there?

brave bear
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now literally anything that boltgun touches turns to shit

terse idol
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???

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What

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Its one of the best guns for boss killing

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Its not the worst

sonic marlin
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yeah

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for bosses

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anything else? not really

terse idol
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You can play EXE and Focus target

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Kill alot of bosses

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Kill alot of spec and elites

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Yall

brave bear
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bolt gun was good when it didn't fail in killing a normal poxwalker with one shot to the chest

sonic marlin
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plasma does it all better

hard briar
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Oh i was gonna come here and troll but I see we have a troll on shift already

brave bear
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now, you can't even kill a poxwalker with a shot to the chest

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useless

terse idol
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I don't give two shits about the plasma rn

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Comparing it to plasma is useless

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It still one taps shotgunners and gunners

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Oh my gosh yall

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Crazy

sonic marlin
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sure

hard briar
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yes

cloud leaf
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Bolter is only good on zealot

serene sage
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like plasma outclasses everything

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i hate how every discussion is like muh plasma does better

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yeah well it's OP as shit

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there is no reason not to use it if you just want to win

sonic marlin
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because i think its boring, i would just use it over the bolter, not everything else

hard briar
brave bear
serene sage
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lmao

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PlAsma DOEs iT BettER

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stfu

terse idol
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Bolter is legit good

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Oh my gos

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But play pgun guys

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Play pgun

brave bear
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oh shit I started a flame war lmao oops lul

terse idol
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Inly

sonic marlin
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getting angry on discord

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kek

terse idol
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Its the only gun

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When you're saying

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Bolter is shit

frank ether
serene sage
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kek

brave bear
sonic marlin
sonic marlin
brave bear
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I get why people like it, but you didn't see it before it got nerfed that's all I'm sayin'

frank ether
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I was there on release playing bolter-psword

hard briar
frank ether
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I'm still playing bolter-psword

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its still very strong

hard briar
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as it should be

frank ether
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you're all just absolute potatoes and your entire argument for bolter bad is plasma/revolver existing

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both of which need some fat nerfs

bitter turtle
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you can circumvent the draw speed anyhow

brave bear
bitter turtle
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muh tech

brave bear
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I swear half the time of having a bolt gun now is just looking at reload animations

finite imp
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the bolters power still infuriates me

brave bear
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before you could just snipe anything with one shot, I don't see anything wrong with that considering the recoil, mag size and reload time

sonic marlin
finite imp
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the devs are so scared to make it OP

frank ether
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I used to think maybe this bolter bad takes come from zealot players but its even stronger on zealot

bitter turtle
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it still oneshots things though

finite imp
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when thats literally what a bolter is

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OP

frank ether
brave bear
terse idol
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Its just frusterating

hard briar
brave bear
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it was as if someone had punched it lightly

frank ether
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and what low ammo

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you get like 100+ bullets

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each bullet is like one elite kill

finite imp
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a bolter hitting you in the chest cavity should pop it like a balloon. Your rib cage should become shrapnel

hard briar
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I miss when Plasma was damage alpha vs the DPS of other guns

frank ether
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each of your bullets stuns half a horde

sonic marlin
frank ether
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you shoot a bulwark and it gets stunned and opens up

bitter turtle
frank ether
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you shoot a gunner 10 others around it are suppressed

bitter turtle
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easy mistake to make

brave bear
frank ether
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Bolter is an easy weapon and the only real issue with it is jank recoil

frail maple
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Every time

brave bear
hard briar
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i cant wait for the vods showing bolter kick ass

frank ether
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It has fine damage output lmao

brave bear
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having a huge recoil is fine if the damage can at least kill a poxwalker with one shot

finite imp
terse idol
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Okay I'm alive

hard briar
brave bear
frank ether
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cry about it

frank ether
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go review bomb the game

bitter turtle
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confused noises

brave bear
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you cry, idiot cry cat cry cry cat

terse idol
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You vant tell me >lul discord rage
When someone asks, "is there a good build for bolter"
And your response is "no Its shit"
Bolter is a good gun

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Its not crazy

finite imp
terse idol
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There is a build for it

brave bear
frank ether
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I'm actually just legit

bitter turtle
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y r u shooting poxwalkers anyway

frank ether
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fucking tired of ''bolter bad''

terse idol
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It just sucks how the meta discussion is

frank ether
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its not bad

bitter turtle
terse idol
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Its bad so don't use it lul

finite imp
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cry about it

terse idol
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Its good

frank ether
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its not plasma tier

terse idol
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Oh my go

finite imp
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C:<

frank ether
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no gun should be plasma tier

brave bear
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are you on the highest difficulty tho

bitter turtle
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or else they would have less than 300 hp

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and dont tell me its old ss

brave bear
bitter turtle
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unless wep speccialist was pre pinning-fire nerf

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lul

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its a grey bolter

soft blade
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my anti poxwalker boltgun build lmfao

brave bear
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also stand 20 meters back more

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you're too close

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maybe it's the damage drop-off, then

bitter turtle
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the stats

brave bear
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you used to be able to snipe shit miles away

bitter turtle
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idk man

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do i need to go farther still staregryn

soft blade
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seems like a build issue

brave bear
old quail
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unarmored is groaners

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ur shootin groaners

brave bear
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there's a clear difference between now and its former glory, as previously stated, no more questions

old quail
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the poxwalkers are to the left

frank ether
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only in vet chat

hard briar
frank ether
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will you have someone argue

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bolter is bad

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based on poxwalkers

soft blade
frank ether
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and someone will even take it seriously

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to begin with

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actual brainlet hours

old quail
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of course u want to kill poxwalkers. they're dirty

bitter turtle
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again

old quail
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no plague in my hive city

bitter turtle
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why are you even shooting trash with bolter 🤔

hard briar
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Im gonna say that a Gyrojet propelled Rocket will probably overpenn a rotting carcass made hollow by maggots

wanton dawn
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Bolter was never good against poxwalker KEKW_ogryn

frank ether
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I just want revolver/plasma to get absolutely nerfed to shit so these people can realize they can not use precision weapons

soft blade
frank ether
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that they do not understand them to begin with

soft blade
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melee isn’t real

soft blade
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idk how you could manage to build a bolter and have it not oneshot poxwalkers

hard briar
soft blade
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that’s honestly really impressive and i wanna see it

bitter turtle
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JUST IN CASE

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someone is gonna tell me

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but reverse damage drop off maybe!?!?!

frank ether
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Just has a bad stigma to it now

frank ether
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Plasma used to be cool

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I used to respect plasma users lmao

brave bear
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so either we're saying darktide is shit or bolt gun is shit

soft blade
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lmfao

brave bear
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to me, difference doesn't matter

bitter turtle
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i think the lesson to take away is

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dont shoot poxwalkers with a gun with only 15 bullets and slow reload

brave bear
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I could empty a boltgun mag into a crowd of crushers and there'd be nothing but gore left

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now you're lucky if you take out two of them

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and it's literally the same gun pre- and post-patches so don't even argue I'm using bad perks or blessings

wanton dawn
brave bear
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because what's the point in keeping a gun that has massive recoil, a tiny mag and a long reload animation when you can just take a revolver that does the same damage but much faster

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like isn't a bolt gun supposed to kinda be op? it's like the iconic "fuck shit up" weapon for 40k

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and I'm not even a big fan, and I know that much

bitter turtle
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by that logic

brave bear
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you're telling me mr. nobody-revolver is gonna make a bolt gun look like crap? gettouttahere man

wanton dawn
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I mean, i play bolter

bitter turtle
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everything is right in teh world

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plasma is the most op

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and revolver is the katana of guns

wanton dawn
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I dont play revolver

brave bear
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I like revolvers in games, they're my favourite weaponry, but this is 40k

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and this is

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darktide

bitter turtle
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also

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just tried it

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u can still drop 4 crushers in one clip

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autofiring

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i think that's perfectly fair

brave bear
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ok then I guess I'm making it up, is that what you're saying?

bitter turtle
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last one is 1 boolet away from death unfortuantely

brave bear
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I'm just dying on purpose, I guess

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when I could really just drop those crushers like nothing

bitter turtle
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maybe you just got dependent on an op gun before

brave bear
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strange that, huh

trim steppe
bitter turtle
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and now the bandage has been ripped away

frank ether
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''what about revolver/plasma''

bitter turtle
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well

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revolver needs to be gutted

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not everything else buffed to the same level as the armor piercing sniper rifle with infinite clip size

frank ether
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gut those two guns

tall torrent
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Plasma needs charged shots buffed and regular shots have less cleave

frank ether
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gut em

bitter turtle
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and fast swap speed

brave bear
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still a massive difference between now-bolt gun and then-bolt gun and thousands of darktide players will agree with me

frank ether
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gut them so the whataboutism can stop

bitter turtle
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i mean the boltgun is basically in a reasonable spot rn

brave bear
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there's a reason why not every veteran has bolt gun anymore

frank ether
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because it takes some semblance of brain cells to use now

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and most of you can't have that

tall torrent
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Also fyi Boltgun is still pretty strong on zealot

frank ether
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literally today I had a veteran with bolter-knife shooting poxwalkers

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doing 1/3th my damage

trim steppe
bitter turtle
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i mean

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ur still talking about a gun that can drop 5 crushers in a few seconds

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its fine for it to be clunky

trim steppe
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That said the boltgun still performs fine, its just not as beastly as before and there's other weapons that are overtuned and outshine it

timid otter
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I swear theres something wrong with how chaos spawn grab works ingame

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Its like it doesnt take in factor latency

bitter turtle
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not everything needs to be plasma with 1 gorillion cleave and oneshots everything with a huge clip and fast swap

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that needs to be nerfed

tall torrent
tall torrent
frank ether
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you can reliably dodge it in meat grinder because thats local I believe

bitter turtle
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also

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if u run exec again

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it can shoot through 6 crushers

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instead of 4

frank ether
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bruh bolter doesnt even need exec

bitter turtle
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i think its perfectly fine

frank ether
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you can run it

bitter turtle
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it doesn't

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but im just saying

frank ether
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but it doesnt even need

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can just run voc and be a tanky boi

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I've been running that build for ages

trim steppe
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I've noticed a lot more slop in the server-client communication lately, I wasn't sure if it was Darktide servers or my new VPN. But a lot more of my blocks, dodges, and weapon swaps dont register and trip me up

frank ether
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and cringe everytime I see other bolter vets

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they always do the same thing

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hipfire into crowds

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run out of ammo

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complain

tall torrent
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People that frequently shoot into crowds will shoot into crowds regardless of the weapon they’re using

bitter turtle
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ngl

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unrelated

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but that's why I think agri revolver doesnt need a buff either

frank ether
bitter turtle
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its just a smaller shittier bolter that's faster

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that's where these guns should be

bitter turtle
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good

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it shouldnt have cleave

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why do revolvers have a gorillion cleave too

frank ether
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I think they should just nerf old revolver and then see where it stands

tall torrent
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Not high cleave just Helbore-grade cleave would do a lot for it

frank ether
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sure

bitter turtle
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any convo about agri volver goes down to

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"but zarona does x better"

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well no shit

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its overpowered

frank ether
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I'm telling you its always the same argument

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and it drives me insane

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but what about gun with infinite cleave and ogryn sized bullets

trim steppe
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Its kinda the opposite of the power sword but with the same situation. Old one gets neglected, new one is pretty well balanced. Its just the old power sword is undertuned and the old revolver is overtuned

frank ether
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can you imagine if every gun was that busted

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half the tryhards already run those two guns or columnus

brave bear
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do you guys prefer it if the vet in your squad has a krak nade or the other one?

bitter turtle
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shredder is better like 90% of the time

tall torrent
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Frag is better than krak usually

frank ether
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krak is only taken when your build just cant deal with carapace I guess

tall torrent
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Or boss dmg

wanton dawn
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Krak is for bon

trim steppe
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yeah I only take krak if my weapons dont do armor well

brave bear
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ok bc since bolt gun literally can't deal with carapace anymore, I'm usually grabbing krak

frank ether
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wdym cant deal lmao

brave bear
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grab krak bc bolt gun crap

tall torrent
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Idk I think relying on guns to kill crushers is a bad habit to begin with

frank ether
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you kill crusher in like 4-5 shots

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less if you built for it

brave bear
tall torrent
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You’re almost always at a pretty huge ammo deficit when shooting at crushers

trim steppe
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last time i used bolter was like 2 months ago, but part of the problem was mag dumping into crushers meant some of the shots straight up didnt register with the server. Doing like 3 round bursts into crusher packs tend to do better

tall torrent
brave bear
bitter turtle
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power sword can 2shot crushers rn right

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its one of the fastest weaponst at killign crushers

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gun or melee

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lol

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u can cancel the charge up animation too

tall torrent
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The only things faster than power sword at killing crushers are the funny folded shovels

brave bear
tall torrent
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It doesn’t take 3 seconds to power up

trim steppe
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PS is crazy good

tall torrent
brave bear
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yeah it's good

brave bear
bitter turtle
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wtf

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then why are you saying teh charge is slow

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lol

tall torrent
bitter turtle
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it charges evven faster

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and kills p fast still

brave bear
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and maybe I was exaggerating bc in-game you rely on speed

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yeah they kill quick

tall torrent
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skip the maybe u were exaggerating

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not many things kill crushers faster than power swords

brave bear
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but I'm saying I have options that I can do the same, and sometimes more, in the time it takes to just charge up the sword

brave bear
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I have a couple options

bitter turtle
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other one 3 shots

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its like

tall torrent
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If u are thinking about kill crushers fast you have more options than Boltgun or power sword

bitter turtle
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litearlly half a second slower

brave bear
bitter turtle
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are u like

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not hitting their head

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or something

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cause yeahi guess it takes a while to kill them if u swing at their arms

trim steppe
tall torrent
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If you’re purely looking at magdump Boltgun playstyle, zealot does that really well rn

trim steppe
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the mk5 or mk19 both can do it

brave bear
tall torrent
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Zealot can basically negate every one of Boltgun magdump downsides except ammo econ

brave bear
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I literally have hundreds of hours just as ogryn because ogryn can do in a second what perhaps only zealot can do in the same time, but takes the other classes half a fkin minute 🙂

brave bear
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yes I'm a fucking god when it comes to zealot and ogryn, thank you I know

tall torrent
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Put blazing piety in there as well

frank ether
brave bear
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I'd challenge anyone to try to out-zealot me when I'm knife zealot and I'm not even kidding

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specials? you don't need to kill a single one

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I take down crushers faster than you can blink 😘

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and yes, I do stick with the squad

tall torrent
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So what were u complaining abt in the first place

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Boltgun for veteran ?

brave bear
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gets boring to be at the top baby 💪

frank ether
trim steppe
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I'm getting a lot of middle school energy outta this rn

tall torrent
brave bear
bitter turtle
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zealot is pretty easy to top frag with ngl

brave bear
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you're telling me I should be happy a quarter of the game is locked away from me because it sucks?

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because it's less effective?

bitter turtle
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can roll ur face across the keyboard with a mediocre melee weapon and not even pull out gun once

brave bear
tall torrent
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Boltgun veteran is not a quarter of the game?

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Veteran has so many good options rn?

brave bear
brave bear
bitter turtle
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if u cant top frag as vet its legitimately a skill issue

brave bear
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it's like kerillian all over again

bitter turtle
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tee hee 217 gunners killed

tall torrent
sonic marlin
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awooga not the best anymore when it comes to auric

brave bear
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I challenge you to show me any of those 1 IQ darktide randos who do a hundredth of the job I do in a game, as vet or psyker

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gl

trim steppe
tall torrent
low lava
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People falling for the troll here lol

bitter turtle
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tfw zealot and ogryn players still keep wanting vet nerfed

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😔

old quail
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i do not feel particularly weakened as psyker

tall torrent
brave bear
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I mean I won't flex any more, my skills in game speak for me tyvm

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ok now I am trolling a tiny bit 🤏 but only to lighten the mood

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by the sounds of it, you'd be surprised tho js

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chances are you'd propose to me while you're wiped and I'm carrying the game and getting you back up tbh uwugryn (still, I would say no)

bitter turtle
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i am surprised

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by someone who shoots poxwalkers with bolter

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was surprised a while ago tbh

stiff merlin
bitter turtle
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and also couldnt kill them*

brave bear
agile forge
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Testing how well a pan fries an egg by melting an ice cube on it

brave bear
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go eat eggs

wary galleon
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Average braced autogun run
I MAY HAVE KILLED ALMOST A 1000 ENEMIES BUT IT WASENT ENUFF OmegaGuardsmanHype

bitter turtle
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u let someone outfrag you on melee elites

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time to uninstall

wary galleon
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its called graia braced autogun and "wtf are you made out of ammo"

brave bear
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leaderboard mod doesn't even show half the useful info tbh

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relax, relax, now I am trolling KEKW_ogryn

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but still, I don't use it

wary galleon
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what would you like to add to it?

bitter turtle
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coherency time

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reddit told me that's the most important stat

frank ether
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true

wary galleon
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well idk about time, but theres coherency efficiency

brave bear
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in reality though, numbers don't necessarily say much in a co-op game

frank ether
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reddit always knows whats good

bitter turtle
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now i simply stand next to my team not attacking

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and yell at them if they ever move away from me

brave bear
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it might tell you something but good squad play doesn't always show

bitter turtle
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optimal reddit plays

wary galleon
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le fis

frank ether
terse idol
sonic marlin
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50k, +ordo dockets curios is the meta

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inspecting random people just makes me mad

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but his finesse is shit and perk too so

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also no headtaker

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can mine be salvaged?

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since people keep saying perks aren't important

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i got another one but this one is not usable right

terse idol
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🥹

terse idol
junior needle
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The other one, no lmao

terse idol
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yeah

junior needle
sonic marlin
junior needle
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It was looking scuffed anyway

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Crafting an proper rashad is tough

bitter turtle
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every single thing on it is important

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unarmored/flak + headtaker/bromentum

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non negotiable really

junior needle
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You can apparently go without flak IF you dedicate a ton of points in the tree to reaching that breakpoint

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But like, just better off crafting it

idle swallow
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Be a psychopath like me and use headtaker/all or nothing on a deadshot vet

grand shale
sonic marlin
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mods

grand shale
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ah, thanks

tall torrent
sonic marlin
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sure'

tall torrent
#

Damnation orthus offensive, bell skip at start and just speedrun the fight

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You won’t have any plasteel from doing this but if you have a full squad just speedrunning it over and over

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You can get 6-7 runs in per hour

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Each is 19950 dockets, with +30% that’s roughly 26k

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Damnation has higher chance to drop gold items which u can sell (or harvest)

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On avg 150~200k dockets per hour

sonic marlin
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btw whats the secret hard mode to get the fully golden thingy

tall torrent
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7 bells scattered across the map, ring them a specific amount of times

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Or, if you have someone who’s already beat hard mode before, u can just bell skip at start (there’ll be 2 bells)

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Left bell is regular
Right bell is hard mode

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When hard mode is activated, the twins have red wreaths around their heads

sonic marlin
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ty for the info

tall torrent
#

Hard mode is mainly hard from the amount of armored elites that’ll spawn in

bitter turtle
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seems like the hardest part about that method is finding a group that does it properly lul

last parcel
tall torrent
#

right bell is hard

wise fossil
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reload to flak is probably the play, right?

tall torrent
#

flak gives u a lot of extra consistency in bodyshots

wise fossil
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unarmored gives me the one shot on dreg gunners which is nice

tall torrent
#

u don't have to run unarmored for dreg gunner 1 shot, but since u can only change 1 it's prob best to get +flak

wise fossil
#

I've noticed too that headshot priority is really low on Maulers

wise fossil
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on a different gun I mean

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and it doesn't headshot 1 shot

tall torrent
bitter turtle
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didnt know you could skip without hard mode

tall torrent
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elite is more versatile for plasma

wise fossil
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okay makes sense

tall torrent
#

also, here's what I compiled for breakpoints

wise fossil
tall torrent
#

Did a little more testing regarding plasma breakpoints
Here’s the info I found:

Assuming you take the following talents:
+5% ranged dmg (x2)
+30% weakpoint dmg
+15% elite dmg
+20% ogryn/monster dmg
Tag keystone & redirect fire (RF)

Default breakpoints with +10% elite (perk)

  • 2 HS reaper
  • 2 shot bulwark (1st open shield, 2nd HS)
  • 3 HS crusher (crits help consistency involving bodyshots)
  • 1 charged headshot crusher (5 RF, 5 stack tag)
  • 2 shot both ragers (1 crit HS both)
  • 1 HS both gunners (dreg needs tag / RF)
  • 1 HS both flamers (need tag / RF)
  • 1 bodyshot trapper, sniper & bomber
  • 1 HS both shotgunners

+Maniac (perk)
Guarantees:

  • 1 HS dreg ragers
    Potential:
  • 1 bodyshot both flamers ( 5 RF + >2 stacks of tag + longshot / agile engagement active)
  • 1 charged HS mutants (5 RF + tag + longshot)

+Flak (perk)
Guarantees the following breakpoints:

  • 1 bodyshot scab gunner (RF active)
  • 1 bodyshot both shotgunners
  • 3 bodyshot mauler (2 bodyshot if 1 crit, needs RF active + tag)
  • this also makes mauler HS worthless since bodyshot > HS in dmg
  • 3 bodyshot reaper (2 shot if either is headshot, needs RF active + tag)
    Potential with agile engagement active:
  • 1 HS both ragers (dreg needs tag)
  • 1 bodyshot dreg gunner (RF)
    Potential with longshot:
  • 1 bodyshot dreg gunner at 12m+ (5RF + 2 tag)
  • 1 HS both ragers at 14m+ (5RF + 2 tag)
  • no longer need tag or RF to 1 HS both gunners & both flamers

+Carapace (perk)
Guarantees the following breakpoints:

  • 3 shot crusher (1st HS)
  • 1 charged HS crusher (RF)
  • 3 shot mauler (1st HS)

Overall conclusion for perks:
Priority: +elite
Consistency: +flak
Potential: +maniac
Kill crushers: +carapace

wise fossil
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I go into Psyk and I straight up can't hit the head

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it's flak armor damage every time

bitter turtle
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imagine

tall torrent
bitter turtle
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if they nerf plasma dmg

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and it completely invalidates all ur work

tall torrent
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it's carapace

wise fossil
tall torrent
wise fossil
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it's showing up as a bodyshot

tall torrent
bitter turtle
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cause yeah its funky

sonic marlin
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whats the best axe after rashad\

tall torrent
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I think flak+elite is the best combo for plasma

tall torrent
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but rashad is usually better

sonic marlin
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what are the requirements for it

tall torrent
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same thing

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bruiser 1HS on light atks

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except antax is even harder to reach those than rashad because no finesse modifier

tall torrent
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I think I have 77 dmg and 73 SP

paper brook
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Which one do I use the first one (which could be reblessed to have Hand cannon as well) or the second one?

sonic marlin
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why is ur game so dark

tall torrent
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harvest 2nd for hand cannon IV, bless onto first

timid otter
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I-II-VEG farms are far more efficent

tall torrent
timid otter
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I-II-VEG farms are more around 500k per hour.

sonic marlin
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so what am I supposed to be able to do with this, seems innefective against crushers and maulers, others it can kill in like 1-3 hits, dreg ragers take 4

timid otter
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This is assumeing players are running 30% ordo dockets on curios.

tall torrent
tall torrent
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u should be able to 4 heavy atk both of them?

bitter turtle
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but it cleaves thorugh hordes very efficiently, can handle any armor type, and is far more mobile

terse idol
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You can get it down reealllly well

tall torrent
terse idol
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yee

sonic marlin
bitter turtle
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light on maniacs

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o wait you tried both

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uhhh

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what's your tree

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looks like your dmg is just a bit short

sonic marlin
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yeah no melee stuff

bitter turtle
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yeah

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in that case

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id take psword ona build like that

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rashad wants melee buffs

sonic marlin
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so it requires talents too?

bitter turtle
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ya

sonic marlin
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which ones

tall torrent
bitter turtle
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usually i only take rashad on wep specialist builds tbh

sonic marlin
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i am using a psword right now, just want rashad eventually

bitter turtle
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but that's just me

tall torrent
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also

bitter turtle
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psword is better if u cant afford any points into melee

sonic marlin
paper brook
# tall torrent first

Yeah I thought that would be my best option since the slightly lower DMG of the first one won't really have much of an impact and it has the ideal perks on it already

bitter turtle
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but i prefer rashad when you can

tall torrent
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u don't need onslaught on thr right side

tall torrent
sonic marlin
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why

tall torrent
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because ogryn dmg is better than rending when ur using rashad

bitter turtle
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well

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his gun might need it

sonic marlin
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im not using rashad

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i dont have it

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im using columnus

bitter turtle
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well

tall torrent
#

are u relying on columnus to kill crushers or smth

sonic marlin
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sometimes i do shoot them yes

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if they aren't close to me

raw steppe
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That seems wrong lol

junior needle
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Ciag does want rending sources for unyielding/flak

bitter turtle
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u can get around 2k dps on a crusher with colu

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and onslaught

raw steppe
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Usually you should only be shooting them if theyre close to you and you have pressure

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Otherwise it's pretty bad ammo wise

tall torrent
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the point sink just doesn't seem worth it to me

bitter turtle
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nah

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its not that much of an ammo dump

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but yeah it is a point investment to grab onslaught

junior needle
raw steppe
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Its like 35-40 shots per crusher

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Thats pretty fucking bad lmao

bitter turtle
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definitely not 40 wtf

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that's like the whole clip

tall torrent
sonic marlin
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I never run out of ammo, most of the time I can switch to melee for like 2 minutes and my ammo is maxed up lol

raw steppe
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A clip is 58

bitter turtle
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yes

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that's nearly

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the full clip

raw steppe
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35/58

bitter turtle
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let me check exactly how much

raw steppe
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I think

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You need to learn math

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LOL

bitter turtle
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it rounds up to being the full clip

junior needle
bitter turtle
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now u learn math nerd :^)

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in any case

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let me check exactly how much you need to drop a crusher

tall torrent
#

I'd still take either onslaught or rending strikes but not both

junior needle
#

What's the mod that lets you search your inventory

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I need it

white minnow
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stuff searcher

raw steppe
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Keep in mind he doesnt have 20% ogryn dmg and deadshot

bitter turtle
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i dont run dedshot either

raw steppe
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So the TTK is even worse

bitter turtle
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too sweaty for me

junior needle
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So flak performance is the primary benefit

tall torrent
#

26m unyielding is perfectly fine, past that the gun doesn't shoot straight enough to be hitting full headshots on reapers anyway

bitter turtle
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no crits

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so like 23 bullet at worst (my clip is 56)

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if u crit even once its below 20

tall torrent
#

as for flak performance, only enemy I think it would matter for are the 2 gunners

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every other flak enemy tries to get close to u

junior needle
#

Flak is the most common armor type in the game, and it starts negative

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Even just like 7m can get you to 90%

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easy

sonic marlin
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i didn't realize until now that crushers are ogryns

sonic marlin
bitter turtle
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ok i lied if u crit once its 20

raw steppe
#

And you also have to drop some headshots

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Since its unrealistic to get 100% headshots

bitter turtle
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even if i drop ogryn dmg

sonic marlin
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95% is reasonable

tall torrent
#

that's the question

bitter turtle
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its still 30 bullet

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not 40

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or even 35

raw steppe
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Ye i think you're overestimating

bitter turtle
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ok if i miss on purpose

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and hit non-head

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then its higher

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but its a crusher

raw steppe
#

How good you are at hitting headshots in a real game

bitter turtle
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wtf u mean you cant hit head reliably

bitter turtle
#

plus its a crusher

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they're big

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and slow

tall torrent
#

I don't think onslaught is a big enough difference vs the 2 gunners at long range, and up close once you reach 100% ADM it becomes drastically less effective anyways

bitter turtle
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i drop ogryn dmg

tall torrent
#

you're only 4% off 100% flak ADM up close

bitter turtle
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and thats no crits

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its not that bad really

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plus you SHOULD take ogryn dmg anyway

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lol

junior needle
bitter turtle
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half a clip to kill 1 crusher even w/o ogryn dmg is fine, revolver takes almost half their clip to kill a crusher and nobody complains :^)

tall torrent
bitter turtle
#

that's nearly half too

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around the same ratio even if u run ogryn dmg

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20 bullets out of 50 for me

junior needle
raw steppe
sonic marlin
raw steppe
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Because the number is inconsistent with my testing

tall torrent
sonic marlin
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cuz i'm using ciag and psword

bitter turtle
untold mulch
bitter turtle
untold mulch
bitter turtle
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it takes half my bullet box that i shove into the gun

untold mulch
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I actually prefer it lmao

brain be weird

untold mulch
tall torrent
bitter turtle
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this is the worst result i got

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without like

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missing

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or something

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on purpose

raw steppe
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Yeah i mean you're just magdumping into the head

bitter turtle
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so at the worst end its 35 for me

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but that's w/o ogryn dmg

raw steppe
#

If you're able to do that you're probably able to melee it

untold mulch
#

Man, I ended up playing today with a friend

We both just did a single Damnation run and turned off the game staregryn

bitter turtle
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if you crit at all its around 30

tall torrent
#

if we're just talking theory, have a flak enemy that's tanky enough who is a high priority target at long range, yes onslaught would be very valuable

sonic marlin
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so do i get rid of rending for ogryn dmg for CIAG?

raw steppe
#

Most of the time when you shoot a crusher its because theres specials and mixed horde

tall torrent
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but there's no such enemy in the game rn

raw steppe
#

So i dont think your 100% headshot is realistic

bitter turtle
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i mean

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you might as well say some dude might miss with the revolver in a panic situation and it actually takes 3 shots to a kill a crusher and not 2

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not that ppl dont miss

untold mulch
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Also have to take into account TTK

bitter turtle
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but i dont think its a valid argument

untold mulch
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Like how much time you take to pop 2-3 revolver shots

bitter turtle
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also fwiw

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since rending negates dmg dropoff

untold mulch
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and how much to half the columnus?

bitter turtle
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even at long range its about the same

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though

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ill admit

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picking out a crusher's head at 20m+ away steadily

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is less realistic

untold mulch
bitter turtle
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its beautiful

untold mulch
#

Thats painful to watch in a funny way

bitter turtle
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now that's how guns should work

untold mulch
#

The more I watch the more it hurts

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is a memetic hazard

tall torrent
# sonic marlin i meaaaan

Unless u plan on magdumping crushers with columnus (a lot), onslaught just doesn't seem worth it to me

agile forge
untold mulch
#

I think is Postal

midnight totem
#

I think that's one of the postal games

untold mulch
#

which one exactly no clue

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I only know the Can you sign my petition

bitter turtle
idle swallow
#

It's from the postal 2 beta, never made it to the final game

bitter turtle
#

no different than ppl who used recon that way pre nerf

untold mulch
#

Damn

sonic marlin
bitter turtle
#

it outdpses recon on crusher for that matter KEKW_ogryn

bitter turtle
#

so like

bitter turtle
#

its actually better than

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the gun that supposedly deserved beeg nerf

tall torrent
bitter turtle
#

since iirc recon carapace values were virtually unchanged

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ah

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ye that's fair

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you give up something to do it

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like keystone

untold mulch
#

The "deserved" part of Recon nerf was a design lead having a fit

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for whatever the reason

raw steppe
bitter turtle
#

most onslaught ciag builds ive made cant take a keystone or have to give up something else

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its nice for brainless play tho

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just point ciag at everything and it dies

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lul

junior needle
tall torrent
untold mulch
#

At thsi rate

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I believe you

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This is leaked FS office logs

bitter turtle
#

wasnt v3 nerfed that patch

junior needle
bitter turtle
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the finesse

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or

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was that a different patch

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idr

tall torrent
bitter turtle
#

oh

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so that was the patch it was broken in

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lul

junior needle
#

Crab said it went from like 18k potential dps to like 14k or something

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post nerf

bitter turtle
#

@sonic marlin

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u could do this

junior needle
#

He had a nice little video of him dumping a plague ogryn

tall torrent
#

u could unironically magdump crushers with v3 with just 15% rending and 20% ogryn dmg

bitter turtle
#

still lets you take the keystone

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albiet with only 1 subnode

junior needle
#

Here it is

sonic marlin
bitter turtle
tall torrent
bitter turtle
#

you can remove the whole thing if you want

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like it was discussed

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im the first to say

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its not bad at all

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its good if you just wanna point the ciag at everything

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but yeah it is a point investment

sonic marlin
#

cool, 4 new points, one goes to ogryn dmg, rest where, might try to boost melee a little

bitter turtle
#

4 pts could go to better nades

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so its up to you

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well

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if you wanted to run rashad

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u could drop focus target and go down wep specialist

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with those extra pts

tall torrent
#

with 4 points u could grab the holy 10% melee dmg + agile engagement combo

bitter turtle
#

or that

tall torrent
#

and have 1 point to spend into demo team

sonic marlin
#

its gonna take years till i get perfect rashad

bitter turtle
#

or ya do 10% melee and demo team

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or hell do demo team and grenadier for meme nade build

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idk if 10% melee helps your bps

tall torrent
#

I run this

bitter turtle
#

on psword i mean

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honestly

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i'd say

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try wep specialist PERSONALLY

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wep specialist psword is also disgusting

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as in disgustingly good

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basically removes the weakness of low mobility and the aspd boost turns you into a blender

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wep specialist doesn't boost ciag that much but, a guaranteeed crit string never hurt anyone

midnight totem
#

Yes

sonic marlin
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how do u even activate weapon specialist what is that

untold mulch
#

change weapon

sonic marlin
#

ah

bitter turtle
#

if you kill enemies with your melee weapon, you get a stacking crit/firing speed buff up to 10 times

untold mulch
#

I personally think is more a melee buff than a ranged one except for some weapons

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Like pull up ranged, shoot a random mf

bitter turtle
#

yeah the melee side is definitely the main draw

untold mulch
#

then have a lot of melee bonus

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I personally wish both bonuses were as good

tall torrent
#

weapon specialist is very fun with laspistol and revolver, paired with power sword

bitter turtle
#

wep specialist is really good with v3 too

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the guaranteed crit + fire rate lets you drop anything basically when you switch to it

midnight totem
#

And plasma gun

bitter turtle
#

you can really notice the bonus fire rate too

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unlike a lot of guns

untold mulch
tall torrent
#

plasma I tried WS, didn't feel as good as just taking middle keystone

untold mulch
#

Like hit 2-3 trash, and you can nuke whoever you want

midnight totem
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Vraks 3 is also a guaranteed crit, but for three bullets, the whole burst

untold mulch
#

Hmm, Noted

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I still stand

midnight totem
#

Add in deadly accurate on the vraks 3 as a blessing

tall torrent
#

especially because if u want WS, u would have to give up smth good like ogryn/monster or 15% elite

bitter turtle
#

i mean tbh i dont usually shoot at crushers with v3

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but you can see the difference in ttk

tall torrent
#

both of which plasma wants

untold mulch
#

Melee keystone better for ""marksman"" weapons

Ranged Keystone better for "Magdump" weapons

fatshark GREAT DESIGN TEAM

bitter turtle
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and how big the firespeed buff feels

midnight totem
#

Also, me running the weapon specialist, I also have agile engagement

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25 percent damage bonus to other weapon for 5 seconds on kill

placid portal
#

me using agil engagement with lucius

bitter turtle
#

i actually dropped agile and 10% melee from the build lul

placid portal
bitter turtle
#

afterwards

midnight totem
#

I killed 10 ragers like that once

bitter turtle
#

though

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ive been trying this tree out recently

midnight totem
#

Killed a few fodder wth the power sword, revolver headshot three of them

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Swapped back to power sword, energize while dodging

crystal dust
#

is the bolter good again or is it still bad?

tall torrent
#

if they ever do smth abt survivalist so left pathing isn't as important I'd prob just go straight 10% melee + AE + move speed aura

terse idol
#

It's tough

midnight totem
#

CHOPCHOP

terse idol
#

Remember why we're here in the first place

#

Weapon spec talents that specified too much on specific guns felt worse

untold mulch
#

and IMO

terse idol
#

Oh sorr yI mean

#

Weapon Specilization keystones

untold mulch
#

"unfiltered opinion"

We haven't seen the old talents before they scrapped it

bitter turtle
#

totally not an excuse to just go infiltrate

terse idol
#

Weapon spec definetly works only for like heavy hitting guns

untold mulch
#

For all we know, they said it was terrible

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and it wasn't

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I don't trust them

terse idol
#

I mean

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You gotta

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We just don't know

#

We have Play testers Here

#

Like they exiiist

#

They talk here

bitter turtle
#

playtesters also told me that recon was "still really strong" after p14

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a mod one no less

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me no trust